Have a brainstorm for AI workflows?

[jeremykemp]

We have been collecting innovative "workflows" for teachers to connect ChatGPT with Canvas and other systems. These recipes give teachers ideas and technical instructions to create classroom resources and activities. These are listed from pretty simple to quite complex. See the attachment. Does anyone have more of these? Add replies here... 

Combine Presentation Feedback into a Classroom Resource: This workflow allows educators to gather and consolidate feedback from student presentations into a cohesive resource. By grouping and quantifying comments, faculty can create a handy worksheet and best practices list, along with a tip sheet for students.

Design Decorative Headers and Page Graphics: Utilizes AI image generators like MidJourney and Dall-E 2 to create attractive page headers and decorative elements for Canvas pages. Offers customization options through prompts and aspect ratio modifiers.

Format Tables and Charts in HTML: Simplifies the process of organizing tabular materials in Canvas by converting rough text arrangements into HTML code for elegant tables. Offers a prompt to create HTML tables within the Rich Content Editor.

Repurpose the Introduction Discussion into a Scavenger Hunt: Transforms the “introduce yourself” discussion into engaging activities like quizzes and games, where students can match key comments to specific classmates. Ensures privacy by allowing name changes and meticulous formatting.

Create a Unique Word Doc for Each Student’s Assignment: Generates individualized Word documents or quiz assignments for each student using a mail merge-like process. Allows mixing and matching of names and assignments, and requires ChatGPT Plus and the Code Interpreter.

Turning a Video Transcript into a Classroom Activity: Converts video transcripts from platforms like YouTube and Panopto into classroom activities. Creates statements for student teams to categorize and reflect upon after watching the video.

Generate Variations on Your Existing Assignment: Uses ChatGPT to enliven existing assignments by reframing them in different contexts, such as modern music. Can also create quiz questions to be added to Canvas.

Create a Syllabus Quiz with Multiple Choice Questions: Enables faculty to create a quiz to ensure students have read and understood the syllabus. Allows for the generation of basic multiple-choice questions from selected portions of the syllabus.

Create a Chart from Your Assignment Dates: Formats assignment dates into a Gantt chart, offering prompt engineering skills to visually fine-tune the chart. Requires ChatGPT Plus and the Code Interpreter.

Tune Up Your Learning Objectives: Analyzes learning objectives for measurability and alignment with course goals. Suggests alternatives and helps in creating rubrics and HTML tables.

Design a Table Layout for Birds-of-a-Feather from Text: Analyzes student posts to find shared themes and arrange them into themed tables. Utilizes ChatGPT to create SVG graphics of the room layout.

Use Canvas’s Course Import Feature to Design Modules in XML: Facilitates the design of course modules in XML for Canvas’s Course Import feature. Enables the creation of dated titles, unlock timelines, and efficient course structure building.

[mdvdmorris]

This is excellent, Jeremy. Thank you for sharing this resource, and for the gigantic list of AI articles. I've already passed that along to people at my school.

I'm curious - what has the feedback about this AI resource been like from instructors? Are you finding that people are open to integrating AI as a tool in their classes?

[alunsfor]

Jeremy,  this is a great list of resources and Ideas.  Thank you for sharing.  As a K12 admin this gives me several ideas for my staff.

[DrNufer]

I've found it to be a meta experience as I have recently been working to revamp assignments in a couple of courses, using ChatGPT to help me strategize to redesign the courses so that either 1. students wouldn't benefit from using ChatGPT to be able to complete their assignments, or 2. integrating ChatGPT into the pedagogy and having the students interact with AI to complete their assignments.  The meta part is that ChatGPT (4) is aware of itself to be able to act as a consultant to me in leveraging or eschewing the technology in my curriculum and pedagogy.  It's really like having a 24/7 T.A.

[GGummess]

ChatGPT is "aware of itself?"  There are professionals a whole lot smarter than me who would say otherwise.  ChatGPT according to one doesn't even understand what it has written.  

Glen Gummess

[DrNufer]

Not truly aware of itself in that it would be self aware.  But it can linguistically make sense of its purpose, including to an extent its capabilities and flaws.  In the end, it's merely stringing together words based on which word or phrase likely would precede another word or phrase based on the libraries of references it has "read".  It's aware of itself enough to perform certain roles.  It gave me an interesting response to a personal query a few weeks back:
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/nufer_should-we-be-kind-to-chatgpt-ive-made-activity-7095451392949006...